158 LYCANIDA., JAMIDES. 
a lunular-oblong black spot, bordered externally by an obscure white thread extending 
to the anal angle. UNDERSIDE, doth wings yellowish-brown -with a straw-coloured shade, 
and transversely marked, in the forewing with seven, and in the hindwing with nine very 
delicate yellowish strigee covered with a faint golden lustre ; three being marginal and con- 
tinued through both wings. Forewing is further* marked, in the space comprised between the 
middle and the marginal series, with two pairs of strigze, one short consisting of two lines parallel 
to each other immediately on the disc, the other extending across the whole surface in an 
angular curve, composed of short lines somewhat flexuose between the longitudinal nerves, 
with a sudden inflection on the disc, by which the posterior portion is directed towards the 
short pair ; viewed together as arranged on the wing, these strigee exhibit a figure somewhat 
resembling the letter Y. Hindwing bears also three pairs of strigze ; the first at a small dis- 
tance from the base, the second in the middle stretching across the disc with a curve at the 
interior margin, the third posterior to this and terminated at the anal ocelli ; they are in- 
dividually composed of parallel interrupted portions ; three ocellate spots are at the 
posterior margin near the anal angle; the exterior one large, nearly circular, abruptly ter- 
minated behind by a streak of silvery irrorations, and surrounded interiorly and at the sides 
with a narrow rufous iris; intermediate ocellus reniform, of the most intense tint on the 
lobe touching the extreme ocellus, which is larger and more distinct than in the related 
species [Wacaduba pavana, Horsfield]; the two last ocelli are united at their internal edge 
by asilvery lunule bordered witha rufous streak. 7az/ black tipt with white. Antenne 
obscurely banded. Body blackish above, white underneath.” (Horsfield,\.c.) ‘* FEMALE. 
UPPERSIDE, doth wings bright but non-metallic blue. Forewing with the costal and outer 
margins broadly (broadest at apex) blackish. Hindzwing with the costal and abdominal 
margins fuscous, the posterior margin narrowly black, with two submarginal waved fuscous 
linear fascize, and a large marginal black spot inwardly bordered with bluish between 
the second and first median nervules. UNDERSIDE, doth wings paler in hue, but marked as 
in the male.” (Distant, 1. c.) 
As regards coloration, the male of this species is perhaps the most lovely of the Indian 
“blues,” its brilliancy rivalling some of the South American species of Morpho. It isa 
common and widely distributed species, occurring all along the low outer valleys of the 
Himalayas, but not in the desert region of Sind, throughout continental and peninsular India, 
in Ceylon, the Andaman Isles, and on Kamorta, Nankowri, Katschall, Trinkutt, Teressa, 
and Great Nicobar Islands, in Assam, Burma, the Malay Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, Formosa, 
and Australia. In Ceylon Mr, Hutchison says that it “has a quick flight, darting from point 
to point among hedges onthe roadside, and settling on the leaves.” This I can confirm, 
in Calcutta it seems invariably to frequent trees and bushes, and always settles with closed 
wings. As it flashes past and suddenly settles on a leaf with its dull-coloured underside 
exposed, the disappearance of such a brilliant little object is somewhat startling. 
There is a slight doubt in my mind regarding the identification of this species with Cramer’s 
bochus, as in the figure of the underside he shews the forewing entirely unmarked, the hindwing 
with two black white-encircled anal spots only, none of the narrow white catenulated bands 
being given. As however the coloration of the upperside ‘is very characteristic, and Cramer 
records the butterfly from Ceylon, where no other species occurs which will fit the figures 
better, I feel nearly sure that he intended to portray the species under discussion, 
Local race 2zcobaricus, Wood-Mason and de Nicéville. (PLATE XXVII, Fic. 186 ¢). 
DEscrRIPTION : ‘* MALE. UPPERSIDE differs from specimens of the same sex from Calcutta, 
Sikkim, South India, Ceylon, and Bombay in the greater extent of the blue on the forewing, the 
broad black outer border of which does not stretch back towards the middle of the costa in the 
manner described by Horsfield,” (Wood-Mason and de Nicéville, l. c., Journ. A. S. B., vol. 1.) 
* In this case “ further” does not mean that there are additional markings to those just mentioned above by 
the writer, but that he now proceeds to give further details regarding them, 
